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By: msdc | December 29, 2018

For change to be successful and sustainable, everyone needs to be on the same page.

We designed Touchpoint with one thing in mind: creating a project management tool that helps you spend more time doing the work that you love.

Active-shooter drills are tragically misguided

Preparing our children for profoundly unlikely events would be one thing if that preparation had no downside. But time and resources spent on drills and structural upgrades could otherwise be devoted to, say, a better science program or hiring more experienced teachers. And there’s scant evidence that drills are effective. They can be psychologically damaging—and they reflect a dismaying view of childhood.

Putting relationship quality at the center of education

Cognitive scientists showed us that emotion is not the opposite of reason; it’s essential to reason. Emotions tell you what to pay attention to, care about and remember. Those early neuroscience breakthroughs remind us that a key job of a school is to give students new things to love—an exciting field of study, new friends. It reminds us that what teachers really teach is themselves with their contagious passion for their subjects and students.

School district tax rates key in Florida’s budget forecast

For three years, the Florida Legislature has told school districts to reduce their property tax rates so their revenue would remain flat as assessed values rose. They made one exception, allowing districts to benefit from the value of new construction. As the state's economy matures into a 10th year of continuous growth, lawmakers might want to reconsider their position.

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